“History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told you?”

— John W. Campbell

and lets fly with a club.
Statement in Analog Science Fiction/Fact magazine (1965)

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American science fiction writer and editor 1910–1971

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